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CR-AG-01Level 2 · Cohort

Risky owner of AI agents

People who own AI agents or service identities and clicked a link in a real phishing message in the last 30 days.

Classification

Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
Cohort class
  • High-impact
Difficulty
  • Hard

A cohort is Easy when every one of its signals is available from standard connectors, Medium when any signal needs setup and none needs an integration or a survey, and Hard when any signal needs an integration or a survey.

Dimensions Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
Evidence level
Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
NIST CSF 2.0 (from its signals)
  • DE.CM-03
  • ID.AM-02
MITRE ATT&CK (from its signals)
  • T1204.001
  • T1528

The definition, in detail

Definition

An owner's compromised account inherits every scope their agents hold.

Example

The engineer who owns the deployment agent's service account clicked a fake password-reset link on Monday.

How it is measured

Formula
SE-B-04 + AG-A-01
Class
High-impact
Difficulty
Hard: at least one signal needs an integration or a survey
Risk domain
AI agents
Sources
Email security, IGA, PAM & entitlements

How it is used

Programs count the people who match SE-B-04 + AG-A-01 at once as a high-impact cohort in AI agents, trend that population, and point the response at it; it feeds 2 breach scenarios.

Membership is evidence that the signals in the formula describe the same person at once. It is a population to act on; on its own it confirms no incident.

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Cite this term

"Risky owner of AI agents" (CR-AG-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/cohorts/cr-ag-01-risky-owner-of-ai-agents

Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one cohort.

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